The Substitute Bride: Making Memories Of Us (Lois Stone)

Lucas knew about Ayla's decision and he had no plans to stop her.

Sooner or later, she was bound to go back no matter what he might say, and he believed that she would eventually come back to him.

And once Ayla saw how intimate Brian and Anna were, she would understand.

"I'm sorry, Lucas.Have I disappointed you for doing this?"

The two of them were sitting on the sofa in the living room, drinking beer.

"Lala, no matter what decision you make, I will always be there to support you.Perhaps you should really go back to A City and see how things are going.It's been over two years since you left the city.I'm sure that a lot of things have changed ever since."

Lucas kept drinking.

Nobody understood how he felt for Ayla, but he never forced himself on her.He was still a man, and he also had sexual urges.Despite that fact, he had never done anything bad to her.Because he knew that he was all she had, and he never wanted to hurt her.And instead of harming her, he'd rather be with her.

Even if he could only stare at her like this, it was enough for him.

"Thank you so much, Lucas.With you by my side, I've never felt alone.I've never had any relatives since I was a child, and Toby was the only person I could rely on.But even so, he never really belonged to me."

Ayla drank so much that she had lost count of how many glasses she had finished.

At this point, she was probably intoxicated.

The man she once loved deeply was now married to another woman.

And the other man she fell in love with forced her to abort her child and drove her away, and even then, she didn't regret anything.

Perhaps, her love for Toby was based on dependence, and her love for Brian was something much more meaningful.

And so, now that she was going back, she must face two kinds of mentalities, and she had two different feelings.

"Lala, you've drank too much."

Lucas wanted to take the glass away from her, but Ayla refused.

"I'm not drunk."

She seldom drank beer or any type of alcohol.

Whenever she wanted to drink, it only meant that she was in a terrible mood and under a lot of stress.

she had been abroad for two

would run into each other on

Lucas.Let's

took his glass and refilled

worried that your body won't be

year because he was afraid that she would suddenly suffer through a relapse

nothing terrible had happened to her

her hand in

a big deal.I'm in good

flashed him a

that much of

year ago, and now, she had

had a near-death

two years, Ayla paid no attention to

was still conducting illegal transactions, and he

would end up destroying himself.She inferred that maybe Brian had given up on this

he wanted to do something,

he abhorred Tatum, he could quickly

been relatively safe over the past couple of years.But Ayla wasn't going to let

she wouldn't have had to

despised him.She truly hated him

two years, I have grown to despise Tatum Green, the man who almost destroyed me.Sadly, I'm unable to hurt him even a bit.Someday,

unintentional or maybe just brought about by her sadness, but

ties to Tatum? Would she also kill

when he heard what she said just now,

know, Brian is also

fact, Brian and Tatum were the same kind

his family wouldn't have

anything, Tatum took him away and put him under harsh

found out about his ties with Tatum one day, she might think

it might drive

had thought of the worst case scenario,

the same kind of people, and they are both the reason that I became like

been living in darkness for more than a year, and wandered on

was the

you want to hate

bore a bit of hatred and resentment in their